IronPort

IronPort

IronPort Systems, headquartered in San Bruno, California, designs and sells products and services that protect enterprises against Internet threats. It is best known for IronPort AntiSpam, the SenderBase email reputation service, and email security appliances. These appliances run a modified FreeBSD kernel under the trademark AsyncOS. [ [http://www.ironport.com/technology/ironport_asyncos_operating_system.html IronPort AsyncOS Operating System] ]

Founded in December, 2000, by Scott Banister and Scott Weiss, IronPort drew its early technical staff from companies such as Hotmail, eGroups, ListBot, and Yahoo!.Fact|date=March 2007

On November 24, 2003, IronPort acquired the SpamCop filtering and reporting service, which it runs as a stand-alone entity. [ [http://www.ironport.com/pdf/ironport_2003-11-24.pdf PRESS RELEASE IRONPORT SYSTEMS Acquires SpamCop] 24 November 2003, accessed 11 August 2007]

Cisco Systems announced [ [http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2007/corp_010407.html?sid=BAC-NewsWire Cisco Announces Agreement to Acquire IronPort] 4 January 2007, accessed 24 May 2007] on January 4, 2007 that it would buy IronPort in a deal valued at US$830 million. Cisco completed the acquisition on June 25, 2007. [ [http://www.ironport.com/company/ironport_pr_2007-06-25.html IronPort - Press Release ] ] [ [http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2007/corp_010407.html?sid=BAC-NewsWire Cisco Announces Agreement to Acquire IronPort -> News@Cisco ] ]

References

External links

*http://www.ironport.com/
*http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000589.html - a few informed viewpoints.
*http://richi.co.uk/blog/2007/01/more-about-why-cisco-bought-ironport.html - speculation about why Cisco bought IronPort
*http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/OObwFRVynd9ti2/Cisco-Buys-IronPort-for-830-Million.xhtml


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